William Penn

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Where charity keeps pace with grain, industry is blessed, but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin against Providence, a vice in government and an injury to their neighbours.

Love truth, but pardon error.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.